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Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
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Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pride. So I reached over and pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her, and held my best friend close, returning so many favors all at once.
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I don't lie. You don't lie, I repeated. That's what I said. Ever. Nope. Sure you don't, I thought.
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It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.
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Once, I was easy. Now, I was choosy. See? Big difference.
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There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hushed voice, lowered just enough to make whatever is said okay. I had only been in Colby for a few weeks. But I had not forgotten.
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You're not the kind of person who smiles for nothing, Colie. I have to earn every one.
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So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go along for the ride.
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Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.
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What you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a project, but a prize. you know?
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It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came.
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You just had to know where to look.
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Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail...they'll come for you. It's like, the highest level of friendship.
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Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.
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We can all be beautiful girls.
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All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.
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funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story
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Sometimes love can be an ugly thing.
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It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing.
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It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.
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I didn't want to talk about what happened, so it seemed safest not to talk at all.
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